David Peralty has announced the release of the new Blogging Pro WordPress theme to the public.

We have been getting some compliments on our design here at Blogging Pro, and a few e-mails asking where they can get our theme. I have been wanting us to release a WordPress theme for a while now, and so I present to you this design, Blogging Pro’s Theme as a free to download theme.
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This three column theme is WordPress 2.1 ready and should work just fine in WordPress 2.0.x. It has been tested on a variety of browsers, but we can’t promise that there will be no problems.

I’ve long been a fan of the clean-cut, contrast-y Blogging Pro theme, which went live late 2006 (while I was still a contributor there) as an improvement over the stock WordPress theme the blog sported since inception. This one is a newly-improved version, which significantly enhances the contrast, and streamlines some elements so there is a balanced, uncluttered feel.

Design was done by Design Disease, which also re-designed Forever Geek, Life Spy, and the recently-sold CSS Vault.

Update: Blogging Pro has also released a Widgets-ready version of the theme.